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Historical Fiction

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Florence Roma Muir Wilson - Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow

A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the War, seeking a spiritual renewal. Deep in the forest he stumbles fatefully...

Expatriate 6 hours 18 minutes

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Literary Fiction

699

Henry James - Awkward Age

Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society — which leads to complications in her family's social set in London's fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in...

Anna Simon 15 hours 16 minutes

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Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Giovanni Verga - Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, «Rustic Chivalry,» or...

Mary J 2 hours 14 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Ayn Rand - Anthem (Version 4)

Ayn Rand is best known for her classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. One of her earlier works, Anthem, is a dystopian vision of a world in which “self” has been abolished and people have become nothing more...

Greg Giordano 2 hours 11 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Colonel's Dream

In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new...

James K. White 9 hours 5 minutes

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2)

Literary Fiction

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James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of Irish society and the Catholic church,...

Tadhg 8 hours 26 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (version 3)

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th...

Bob Neufeld 2 hours 17 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room (version 2)

Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his education at Cambridge and finally to his death in World War I. The prose...

Jesse Bordwin and 3 more 5 hours 57 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Romantic

As a simple story told, «The Romantic» is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secretary, finds herself in a degrading extra-marital affair with her boss. In reaction, she...

Expatriate 4 hours 23 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Shadow-Line

Dedicated to the author's son who was wounded in World War 1, The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first...

Expatriate 3 hours 52 minutes

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Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey (Version 3)

Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new career more difficult than she expected. — Summary by Libby Gohn

Libby Gohn 7 hours 3 minutes

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - House Behind the Cedars

In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history....

James K. White 7 hours 29 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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